By
Katharine Kave McMillan, Patricia Hart
McMillan
Use Home
Decorating Techniques to Create Your Own Personal Space
Do
you long to create picture-perfect rooms but can’t quite seem to
achieve them?
Do you want better functioning spaces for working, playing, or
living?
Do you clamor to express your personal style?
If you said “yes” to any of these questions, you’ve turned to the
right source for real answers from the pros.
Home Decorating For Dummies, 2nd Edition is for all
kinds of people in all kinds of decorating situations, including:
- First-time buyers or renters. You have a whole new place to
decorate. Where do you start?
- Second- or third-time home buyers. Whether you’ve gone up or
down in size, stayed in the same region or moved to a whole new
one, you need to know how to make your old furniture work in a
new setting, how to add furnishings, and how to make your style
seem fresh.
- Newly blended families. He has furniture, she has furniture,
they have furniture. Can it all work together harmoniously?
Indeed!
- And anyone else who loves decorating. Don’t forget:
Imagination counts.
Each part of Home Decorating For Dummies, deals
with a broad area of decorating, and each chapter contains specific
and detailed information. You'll discover tips on
- Basic planning – where to begin when you want to start
decorating
- Creating surface interest – the effects of color, pattern,
and texture, and the problems created by too much or too little
of them
- Creating backgrounds – what you need to know about the
special decorating requirements of your walls
- Tackling tough rooms – how to effectively decorate rooms
that have special functional requirements
- Accessorizing with art and other stuff – adding the final
flourishes to every space in your place
Home Decorating For Dummies, 2nd Edition contains all the
basics – including how to figure out what you can spend; how to
spend it; and the latest and greatest in styles, trends, and
technology. What do you do with your space next? The possibilities
are endless
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About the Authors:
Katharine Kaye McMillan, former senior editor of a New York
City-based national magazine, is a writer whose work appears
regularly in magazines and newspapers. She is a contributing writer
to internationally circulated Florida Design Magazine. She is
the co-author of several books on decorating and design, including
Sun Country Style, which is the basis for licensed signature
collections of furniture and accessories by three leading American
manufacturers and importers. A graduate of the University of Texas
in Austin, she holds a masters degree in psychology and is a
doctoral student in psychology at Florida Atlantic University, Boca
Raton, Florida.
Patricia Hart McMillan is a nationally known interior
designer, whose interior design work for private clients, designer
showcases, and corporations has appeared in publications worldwide,
including the New York Times and USA Today. Known as a
trend spotter and for clearly articulated views on design, she is
quoted frequently and extensively in both trade and consumer
publications. She appears on TV and talk radio. A prolific writer,
she is coauthor and author of seven books on interior design and
decoration, with Sun Country Style signature collections of
furniture based on two books. She has taught decorating courses at
several colleges and conducted numerous seminars across the U.S. She
is decorating editor for Christian Woman Magazine and reports
on design trends for The Sun-Sentinel, a Tribune newspaper
based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She has been editor-in-chief of
two publications and was head of a New York City-based public
relations firm representing some of the most prestigious names in
home furnishing and building products. She holds a Bachelor of Arts
degree in English, with a minor in art history (with an emphasis in
architecture), from the State University of New York (New Paltz).
She was awarded a certificate from The New York School of Interior
Design
Table of Contents:
Introduction.
Part I: Basic Planning.
Chapter 1: Bringing Your Vision to Life.
Chapter 2: Planning Your Budget.
Chapter 3: Evaluating Your Space.
Chapter 4: Understanding Design Principles.
Part II: Creating Surface Interest.
Chapter 5: Eyeing Color Basics.
Chapter 6: Applying Pattern Basics.
Chapter 7: Feeling Your Way Through Textures.
Chapter 8: Troubleshooting Basics.
Part III: Style and Substance.
Chapter 9: Living with Historic Decorating Styles.
Chapter 10: Decorating with Contemporary Styles.
Chapter 11: Determining Your Personal Decorating Style.
Chapter 12: Finding Out about Furniture.
Part IV: Creating Backgrounds.
Chapter 13: Creating Wonderful Walls.
Chapter 14: Finding Fabulous Floors.
Chapter 15: Sprucing Up Ceilings.
Chapter 16: Dressing Up Windows.
Chapter 17: Lively Lighting.
Part V: Tackling the Three Tough Rooms: Kitchen, Bath, and
Home Office.
Chapter 18: Cooking Up Your Dream Kitchen.
Chapter 19: Beautifying Your Bathroom.
Chapter 20: Setting Up Your Home Office.
Part VI: Fixing Up Four Easy Rooms.
Chapter 21: Styling Serene Bedrooms.
Chapter 22: Creating Your Living Room.
Chapter 23: Designing for Dining.
Chapter 24: Transforming Bonus Areas.
Part VII: Embellishments: Accessorizing with Art and Other
Stuff.
Chapter 25: Acquiring and Arranging Art.
Chapter 26: Accentuating Your Style.
Part VIII: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 27: Ten Quick and Easy Centerpieces.
Chapter 28: Ten Tips for Leftover Wallpaper.
Chapter 29: Ten Favorite Sources.
Index
Soft-cover, 384 pages
Published 2003
ISBN 978-0-7645-4156-8
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